Shachar Kariv | |
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Occupation(s) | Economist, professor |
Academic background | |
Education | B.A. (1998), Tel Aviv University M.A. (2000), Ph.D. (2003), New York University |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of California,Berkeley Norwegian School of Economics |
Shachar Kariv is an economist and the Benjamin N. Ward professor of economics and economics department chair at the University of California,Berkeley. [1] He also teaches at the Norwegian School of Economics. [2]
Kariv is an editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics . [3]
Kariv was the chair of the economics department of the University of California,Berkeley from 2014 to 2017 and since 2021 has been chair once more. [4]
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